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Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico

"turn up their coat collars and, as much as posible, tum their backs to the storm until it passed over." The Federal officers were clearly determined to stand by each other and manipulate the machinery of govemment for the oppression of the Mormons, as well as for their own protection. Wntten accounts demonstrate that officers, raiding for polygamists, violated the constitutional lirnits outlined in the Fourth Amendment, in both spirit and law. Officers raided at ali hours, with a significant number of raids taking place without search warrants and with unnecessary abuse. The United States Attomey, W. H. Dickson, asserted that "within one year, if the present pressure on the guilty is continued, the Church will command subrnission to the laws." Hunting polygamists offered pecuniary rewards. A United States Marshal received $2 for serving any warrant, attachrnent surnmons, or other writ. SeMng a subpoena netted only half a dollar, while sumrnoning jurors drew $2. For each polygamist arrest, however, a marshal received $20, almost one-tenth of his annual$200 salary. As a result, Mormon homes became the central target of many a rnarshal's attack. They scrutinized Wtually al1 areas of a house dunng a seaxh. Deputies inspected kitchens, attics, barns, and outhouses, checking in and under beds, laundry, carpets, and "every nook liable to be utilized as a hiding place." Officers often had good reason to search relentlessly for suspects. The Mormons sometimes outfoxed the officers, slipping out back doors, climbing inside bins, or constructing elaborate hideaways2 A notonous case happened in Parowan involving Edward M. Dalton, age thkty-four, who was a robust, good-natured citizen. When he was arrested for being a polygamist in the spnng of 1886, he announced to the Deputy Marshall that he was going to escape. He then took off his nding boots and outran his pursuers. He spent the summer and f d in Arizona and carne home in the winter to care for his family. When he anived home he found the people of Parowan stirred up over the shooting in which a Deputy Marshall, William Thompson, had almost killed Peter M. Jensen who had tned to escape arrest for unlawful cohabitation. When Thompson found out that Dalton had retumed, he and Deputy Marshd W. O. Orton, fiom

"turn up their coat collars and, as much as posible, tum their backs to the storm until it passed over." The Federal officers were clearly determined to stand by each other and manipulate the machinery of govemment for the oppression of the Mormons, as well as for their own protection. Wntten accounts demonstrate that officers, raiding for polygamists, violated the constitutional lirnits outlined in the Fourth Amendment, in both spirit and law. Officers raided at ali hours, with a significant number of raids taking place without search warrants and with unnecessary abuse. The United States Attomey, W. H. Dickson, asserted that "within one year, if the present pressure on the guilty is continued, the Church will command subrnission to the laws." Hunting polygamists offered pecuniary rewards. A United States Marshal received $2 for serving any warrant, attachrnent surnmons, or other writ. SeMng a subpoena netted only half a dollar, while sumrnoning jurors drew $2. For each polygamist arrest, however, a marshal received $20, almost one-tenth of his annual$200 salary. As a result, Mormon homes became the central target of many a rnarshal's attack. They scrutinized Wtually al1 areas of a house dunng a seaxh. Deputies inspected kitchens, attics, barns, and outhouses, checking in and under beds, laundry, carpets, and "every nook liable to be utilized as a hiding place." Officers often had good reason to search relentlessly for suspects. The Mormons sometimes outfoxed the officers, slipping out back doors, climbing inside bins, or constructing elaborate hideaways2 A notonous case happened in Parowan involving Edward M. Dalton, age thkty-four, who was a robust, good-natured citizen. When he was arrested for being a polygamist in the spnng of 1886, he announced to the Deputy Marshall that he was going to escape. He then took off his nding boots and outran his pursuers. He spent the summer and f d in Arizona and carne home in the winter to care for his family. When he anived home he found the people of Parowan stirred up over the shooting in which a Deputy Marshall, William Thompson, had almost killed Peter M. Jensen who had tned to escape arrest for unlawful cohabitation. When Thompson found out that Dalton had retumed, he and Deputy Marshd W. O. Orton, fiom